Sarju: this chapter's so emotional...
Stan: well, i blame you!
Sarju: HOW is any of this my fault?
Stan: *clears throat then reads off Timeandcirues FF Profile* Sarju Tiny-splitting up Jedward 128754 times over! XD
Sarju: Still not my fault... and stop giving away clues, we're supposed to find them, not give them away! ;)
Stan: Blah, blah! anway-next chapter!
The sky was lightening as Kurda and his two assistants entered the town ready to feed. Jedward were tired and out of breath after running through the hills, as was Kurda after he raced ahead of them by flitting-something that they still found both hilarious and scary.
"Are we here...yet, Kurda?" John puffed, resting his hands on his knees whilst trying to catch his breath-his brother was doing the same.
"Be patient, boys. We have arrived, but we need to find someone to feed from. That's the hardest part, in many ways." Kurda shook his head as he began scouting the town for someone suitable, he couldn't believe that the twins were so eager to drink blood after what they had just been through. "Urgh." John shivered with disgust, involuntarily, at the mention of 'feeding' and Kurda realised that they were probably just putting a brave face on things.
He sighed as he looked back at the boys and set off walking again. They didn't have time to be picky-the sun was rising fast and they need to feed. Kurda walked ahead of the twins-giving them some space to think about things. "Psst...John!" Edward whispered when Kurda was out of hearing-range.
"I'm scared!" He admitted.
"Me too Edward!" John agreed "But we have to do this-if not for Us, then for Kurda..."
"You're right John...I just can't believe we're vampires, yknow." "I know, Edward, it scares-"
He was cut off by Kurda, who flitted back to where the twins were walking, and motioned to them to keep quiet. He had spotted what seemed to be the perfect target, a youngish man, walking along the side of the road with his headphones in, wearing a uniform which showed he was clearly off to work. "Is...is that who we're going to...yknow..." John said hesitantly.
"Yeah." Edward added, loudly. "Do we have to..yknow..."
"Sssh!" Kurda shushed them. "Not so loud."
"Relax, Kurda, he's wearing head phones, he can't hear a thing." Edward pointed out, half smiling at the fact that his vampire mentor hadn't noticed such a simple fact.
Kurda narrowed his eyes at the boy then nodded.
"I guess..." he sighed "But you STILL have to be quiet."
The boys nodded nervously before turning to their mentor.
"We're ready Kurda...so..." John trailed off. Kurda nodded in understanding before leading them forward.
"Come on boys," he whispered "Time to really know what it's like to be a vampire..."
Together, Kurda and Jedward walked forwards towards the young man, as though nothing out of the ordinary was going on. As they reached him, Kurda put a hand out to attract his attention.
"Excuse me? Do you know where the shops are?" As the man opened his mouth to answer, Kurda breathed out the knockout gas that was a vampire's speciality, and he fell to the ground with a thud. As John and Edward stared down at the motionless man, they suddenly began to notice little details about him, such as the label on his shirt that read "You have been served in Greggs today by: Andy Gregg", and the little blob of toothpaste that was still on his chin.
"I...I can't do it..." John muttered.
"Me neither..." Edward Agreed "He's just too...too normal..."
Kurda turned to them and sighed. "You can do this guys, look..." he bent down over the man and used his nail to cut a small slice in the man's arm. Jedward both took in breath sharply as they watched, then cringed as Kurda put his lips to the cut and started to drink.
As they stared silently at Kurda gulping down the man's blood like there was no tomorrow, they briefly considered running away as fast as they could, but rejected the idea, Kurda would only flit after them and catch them, and in the end, what good would it do? After the longest minute of their lives, Kurda looked up, red liquid dripping down his mouth which he quickly wiped away with a sleeve. He looked more awake, and happier almost.
"See?" he grinned "it's not that bad!"
"Ok, Kurda?" Edward spoke nervously. "I guess we can...can..." he stopped as tears prickled in the corner of his eyes, luckily his brother was able to finish the sentence.
"I guess we can do this!" he smiled, but he really didn't sound too confident.
The Jedward twins knelt down closer to the man's unconscious body, but then made no move at all to drink from the cut in his arm. Instead they just looked at one another, trying to psych each other up.
"Sooo...who's first?" Kurda asked. Still, neither of the twins said or did anything. "John? How about you?" He wanted to sound as kind and supporting as possible, but in the back of his mind annoyance was beginning to form. "Im sure I never had this trouble drinking blood..."
But the twins weren't paying any attention to their mentor.
"I don't think I can do this!" Edward cried "he's a dude...a real dude!"
"but if we don't then...then we'll die!" John stated.
"I know, but I'd rather die! No one cares about us anyway..."
"I guess so...so, we're not gonna drink?" John asked,causing Edward to shake his head.
"There's no point-no one cares if we live or die!"
Kurda gasped at the boys silently, he'd had enough and if they wouldn't drink by themselves then he'd just have to make them-or at least show them that people did care.
"Of course people care..." he told them. "You're Jedward, people love you...in fact," he moved towards the man's head and pulled out the earphones-he could hear what song was playing, but obviously Jedward couldn't. He raised the earphones to the twins ears and grinned. "If people don't love you, then why would they listen to your music?" It was true, the song 'lipstick' was blasting from the headphones-at this the twins couldn't help but smile a little!
"And remember why you became vampires in the first place?" Kurda added. "Because you saw me flit. But that was only because I wanted to try and meet you...because I loved you guys. See, even vampires love you and your music! Surely that's a good enough reason to stay alive?" It was.
"I'm gonna do this, John." Edward whispered determinedly. "I'm beside you all the way, Edward."
John leant his head forward towards the man's arm and took a deep breath, Edward put his hand on his brothers back for support. A pin drop could have been heard as Johns lips touched the man's flesh, and red blood pumped into his mouth.
John tried hard not to think about what exactly the warm liquid running down his throat was, and Edward at the same time tried hard not to look disgusted as he watched his brother feed hungrily from a poor human man. Kurda beamed proudly at the two of them. He knew that now John had drunk blood, Edward would almost certainly follow.
After what then seemed like an eternity, John pulled his mouth away and licked his lips.
"It...it tastes good..." The look of both disgust and astonishment on Edwards face was obvious.
"So...so it's my turn?" he stuttered.
Before Kurda could even begin to offer Edward some encouragement, John took charge.
"Go on Edward. You'll be fine! Its so cool, you feel like a proper vampire, and it tastes...it tastes so good Edward you have to try it!" It seemed, to Edward, as though it was the whole John-being-blooded-first scenario all over again.
He couldn't let his twin down, they were always the same and they would always be. Taking his brothers advice, Edward leant over the man slowly and clamped him lips around the cut, both excitement and pride shone in Kurda's eyes as his second assistant drank.
Edward's eyes widened as he realised exactly what John meant when he said the blood tasted so good-it was better than good-there wasn't a word to describe it! For a few moments, he had been afraid that he would find it beyond vile, and that for the sake of being the same as John he would have to pretend he liked it just as much as his twin did.
He was so relieved that he liked it. Going through a lifetime of false like would have killed him even more than not drinking. He pulled away and sat up, beaming at his twin and then at his mentor. "You know..." he smiled "maybe being a vampire isn't so bad after all!"
"It's better than not bad!" John added. And as Kurda watched the two twins break into identical grins and shout "It's JEPIC!" together, he knew that everything was definitely back to normal. Well, as normal as it could be when you had Jedward as your assistants, of course.
He grinned in happiness as his assistants stood up. "Jepic?" he laughed "never heard that word before..."
"That's 'cause its our word Kurda! We invented it!" Edward grinned.
"As well as jedicated, jedhead and..." john began before his brother interrupted him-
"And LOTS of words!"
"YEAH! All the best words are jed-ified to make them awesome like us!" John finished. "So what are we doing now, Kurda?"
"Well, we need to leave before..." Kurda checked the nametag on the guy they had fed from."...Andy here wakes up, so we best be off!"
"To the mountain now?" Edward asked and Kurda nodded.
"To the mountain..." he repeated.
"What's it like there? Are all the vampires super cool like us?"
"Well," Kurda smiled "some of them are-just wait until you meet a girl called Arra!"
Jedward smiled, imagining meeting all of the other awesome vampires,showing them how to style their cool vampire hair just like Jedward's, and teaching them all the jepic dance moves to their songs. In their mind, this Arra girl was something similar to Amy Childs, the totally awesome girl from Essex they met in the Big Brother House.
They couldn't wait to meet her-her and all the others. There would be loads of cool people!
"wait!" Edward frowned "is there any kids?"
"Um...no!" Kurda admitted. "We...er...vampires can't have children..."
"Wh..whaat?" John stuttered. "We can't have children?" Oh, great, Kurda thought. Yet another aspect of vampire life that Jedward find less than appealing.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL US THIS BEFORE?" John yelled, and Kurda noted that John was the most aggressive out of the twins. Twice he had lost his temper already.
"I'm sorry, but you're only boys!" Kurda explained "I didn't think you'd be bothered about kids..."
"WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU NOT TOLD US ABOUT BEING VAMPIRES?" John shouted at Kurda, while Edward stared at his brother and his mentor, slightly unsure of what to do or say. It looked to Kurda as though Edward was more shocked by his brother's reaction than by the fact that he would never have a kid.
"John..c-calm down.." he mumbled
"CALM DOWN?" John yelled "HE LIED TO US EDWARD! WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE HE LIED ABOUT?" Edward began to back away slowly, he'd never seen his twin like this before. John was the angriest he'd ever been and even Kurda-who always knew what to do-had no idea what to say.
Clearly his vampirism was bringing out the worst in him. Kurda suddenly realised that he had known nothing about the two twins before blooding them, aside from the usual celebrity facts such has their favourite fruit (strawberries) and their birthday (16th October). Their blood was fine, but apart from that, who knew how they would turn out as the years progressed?
Maybe they would be completely different to what Kurda believed. They might even grow up to become sensible men like Larten and Seba. Kurda wanted to laugh at the thought of imagining them like that-but the situation was far too serious to laugh at.
"COME ON KURDA...WHAT ELSE ARE YOU KEEPING FROM US?" John continued angrily. Kurda thought about telling them to calm down and sort things out rationally, like normal people, but he knew that he was wasting his breath. He had just told the two boys that thanks to him, they would never ever have children, they had a right to be mad at him.
"You...can always have an assistant one day, if you really want to." he said, in a vain attempt to make things better.
"An...assistant?" Edward asked. "But we're your assistants and we're not children!" Before Kurda had time to reply, John started shouting again.
"DONT EVEN TALK TO HIM, EDWARD! HES A LIAR!"
"No, John...please!" Kurda begged "You don't understand, I'm sorry but...but" he sighed "I should have told you."
"YES! YOU SHOULD HAVE!" John growled as the man on the floor-Andy-began to stir. John looked down at him and frowned. "MIGHT AS WELL BLOOD HIM WHILE YOU'RE AT IT!" he yelled at his mentor. "BLOOD LOTS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WITHOUT TELLING THEM ANYTHING! RUIN THEIR LIVES!"
"I know what I did was wrong, but I just don't want you to hate me...I'm here to help you, teach you about being a vampire. I'm pretty much all you've got." Kurda continued.
"Kurda-we don't hate-" Edward began, but John interrupted angrily.
"SO YOU'RE ON HIS SIDE NOW, ARE YOU? YOU'RE MEANT TO BE MY TWIN!"
"Whaa...whassgoinn-" Andy murmured as his eyes fluttered open and he squinted around. "Is...izzzat J-Jedward?"
"it WAS Jedward!" John spat "Buts it not any more!"
"What, John, what do you mean?" Edward asked, confused.
"You're on Kurda's side-not mine! GO BE HIS BROTHER! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE EDWARD! I HATE YOU!"